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Troy, MI-Bang! It's a sound you'll hear over and over again in a new crash test facility opened here by GE Plastics and Defiance Testing & Engineering Services Inc. Capable of moving an actual vehicle or a test sled at speeds up to 16 mph, this barrier-impact test stand fills a gap between the...

Tokyo -Time is money, especially in the competitive automotive field where cutting the time and cost of car development has turned into a global race. To maintain its world-wide competitiveness, Toyota Motor Corp. has successfully introduced digital manufacturing software, slashing car development...

Columbus, OH -How will the world's largest consumer of energy meet its needs in the first decade of the new millennium? Experts from Battelle Labs and the national laboratories rate the ten energy innovations with the most impact. In order of importance: A shifting energy industry structure. Oil...

Gothenburg, Sweden -When it comes to automobile crash testing, computer simulations are only as good as the input data. That's why the new Volvo Car Corp. Center, which was officially inaugurated on 29 March 2000, is equipped with a crash test barrier capable of measuring offset impacts. Designed...

Mahwah, NJ -Jaguar recently unveiled the X-Type-its smallest and "most affordable" sports saloon (that's sedan to us Yanks). The car goes on sale next summer in Europe and by the end of the year in other markets. The X-Type is aimed at competing with the BMW 3 Series, Audi A4, Mercedes C Class, and...

Golden, CO -The jazz standard "Route 66" may well be the theme of the 2001 American Solar Challenge (ASC)-the sun-powered car race to be held from July 15-25. The race will run down the historic U.S. highway from Chicago to Los Angeles and, at 2,300 miles, will be the longest solar-car race in the...

Nevada, IA -As manufacturers of agricultural combines and other off-highway equipment integrate more computer-enabled technology into their products, the equipment operators have more to do than just drive. Machines like those manufactured at ALMACO, developers of agricultural research equipment,...

State College, PA -Drive on under-inflated tires and you're flirting with disaster, as every Ford Explorer driver in America now knows from Firestone's Wilderness tire recall. But what most don't know about tire failure is that it's caused by "standing waves." "Every tire has a maximum speed limit...

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